falling into classification

Falling into ClassificationRecognizing Wisconsin Trees

Miss Emily Ranch

There are about 750 types of trees in North America and about 100,000

in the world.

Classifying trees takes an advanced

vocabulary

Lets tackle some new words

Each word will help us identify the trees

Vocabulary

Coniferous

Deciduous

Examples

Coniferous Balsam Fir

White Spruce

White Pine

Tamarack

Deciduous Box Elder

Black Ash

Sugar Maple

Silver Maple

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/balsam_fir.htm

http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/treeDetail.cfm?id=38

http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/treeDetail.cfm?id=42

http://www.nativetech.org/willow/tamarack/tamarack.html

http://maple.dnr.cornell.edu/kids/tree_box.htm

http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/ash_black/ash_black.html

http://maple.dnr.cornell.edu/kids/tree_sug.htm

http://maple.dnr.cornell.edu/kids/tree_silv.htm

Coniferous

Deciduous

Coniferous

Leave Needle Shaped Leave Needles NOT Shaped

Needle Shaped

LeavesSingle Grouped Clustered

Single Leaves

Flat Needles Angled Needles

Coniferous

Deciduous

Deciduous

Alternate Branches Opposite Branches

Leaf Type

Simple Complex

Leaf Ridge

Smooth Outline Toothed Outline

Pith Type

Plated Pith Not Plated Pith

Leaf Lobe

Simple Lobed Non - Lobed

Lets Get Started!

Now that we know what we’re looking for we can successfully identify some

trees

Examplehttp://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/veg/treekey/index.htm

Let’s do it together.

http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/veg/treekey/index.htm



Example #2

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deciduous trees

coniferous trees

different trees

classifying trees

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different types of trees

specific types of trees

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